Golf accessory



N. K. M DONALD Oct. 26', 1926.

GOLF ApcEssORY Filed July 5; 1924 4 5 i m a FIG. 5

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

NORMAN vK. MAQDONALD, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

\ GOLF ACCESSORY. Application filed July 3, 19 24, Serial No. 724,183, and in Canada June 5, 1924s This invention relates to new and useful improvements in golf accessories, and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and compact means for supporting or teeing a ball, a meanswhich will be easily and conveniently erected in position and which will be constructed to give a high or low hall support according to wishes of the player.

' to facilitate their removal from the folder and also for placing them in position for use. e supports are formed with convex and concave upper and lower ends, so that the ball is supported on fouroints, the curvature of said endsbeing suc that the supports may be used for'high or low ball supports.

In the drawings v Figure 1 is a perspective view of the folder with the ball supports or tees attached thereto. a

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one support as it is withdrawn from the holder.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the support when used for a low tee or ,ball support.

Figure 4 isa e1 spective view of the support when ,used for a high tee or ball support.

Figures 5and 6 are side elevations of the supports with golf balls mounted thereon.

Figure 7 is a developed plan of the supports.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 11 designates a folder or cover within which is mounted the portable ball' supports 12. In the drawing I have shown two sets 13 and 14 consisting of nine supports, the two sets forming a group of supports suitable for the standard eighteen hole course. The sets are placed within the folder and are fastened thereto by means of the wire binder 15, the ends of whichv pass through the folder and supports and are side of the folder.

sand boxes bein bent over in the usual manner on the outone sheet of cardboard or paper as shown in Figure 7 and designated 16. The sides 17 and 18 of the cardboard sheet are smeared with an adhesivecompound so that they may be joined together. Four score lines 19 are pressed in the longitudinal direction of the sheet, so that when the sheet is folded and gummed, it will lie flat in the holder as shown in Figure 1 and can be pressed into the form of a rectangular hollow column. Ourvedscore lines 20 are pressed in the transverse direction of the sheet, each line comprising fourcurves of equal radius. In the drawing I have shown nine such lines in each set, the distance between the curved lines at all points in the longitudinal direc tion of the sheet being equal for the purpose hereinafter explained.

' The drawing is for illustrativepurposes only and eighteen ball supports are shown, but this number may be increased or decreased without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The operation and utility of the device player of the game is as follows: When a of golf is drivin his ball from the teeing stance of a gol course, it is permissible to raise the ball clear of the ground when using his wooden club or driver. This is usually done by placing the ball on a conical mound of sand commonly called a tee, usually provided for the purpose of storing the sand. Sometimes through some inadvertence the sand boxes are empty and difficulty is found in providing a substitute so that proper advantage may be taken of this rule. With the portable tees in the form disclosed, this rule may be'taken advantage of. The player opens the folder and detaches a piece of the sheet along the curved score lines. This provides a piece of cardboard or paper which may be pressed into a hollow support of rectangular formation as shown in Fi ures'3 and 4. When a high ball su port is required, the tees are placed as shown in Figure 6, that is with the'corners 21 resting on the ground and the ball 22 resting on the convex uppersurfaces 23. When a low ball support or tee is required the support may be reversed as shown in Figure 5, that is with the convex surfaces 23 engaging with the ground and the ball 22 resting'in the concave ends 24. The device has many Each setis formed from' along t advantages such as a player can be always assured of atee or -support of the same height and that he can conveniently carry his own tees during the game.

Having thus described my invention,

what I claim is 1. A combined high and low ball golf tee com rising a flattened paper tube creased lie folded edges of the tube and intermediate the edge creases to provide four fold lines whereby the tube is caused to assume a rectangular configuration when opened out, the upper edge of each side of surfaces are supported on the groundand said convex surfaces affording a high ball supportedwhen the position of the tube is reversed to present the convex surfaces uppermost.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a

series of connected golf ball tees formed from a single sheet of paper having four creases pressed therein to extend longitudinally, there being also a plurality of transversely extending score lines formed in the sheet, each score line comprising four curves of equal radius with the curves of each line aligned with and paralleling corresponding curves of adjacent lines, said sheet having the longitudinal edges thereof secured together to form a flattened tube with two of the longitudinal creases extending along the folded edges of the tube and the two remaining'creases located midway between the edge creases.

In witness whereof,

I V I have hereunto set my hand.

NORMAN K. MAoD-ONALD. j 

